1888 - Jim Thorpe born
1906 - Playright Henrik Ibsen dies
1908 - Ian Fleming born
1931 - Carroll Baker born
1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1944 - Gladys Knight born
1944 - Rudolph Giuliani born
1945 - John Fogerty born
1951 - Her Royal Highness, Princess Elizabeth, formally opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow
1959 - Two monkeys, 'Able and Baker' have become the first living creatures to survive a space flight.
1967 - Sir Francis Chichester has arrived in Plymouth tonight in his yacht, Gypsy Moth IV, after completing his epic single-handed voyage around the world. Also Glen Rice born
1968 - Kylie Minogue born
1974 - Northern Ireland's first power-sharing assembly collapses after its leader Brian Faulkner steps down faced with rising opposition.
1979 - Jesse Bradford born
1998 - Pakistan explodes five underground nuclear devices in response to India's recent nuclear tests.
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